#Solved.
An updated plugin was the problem. I removed all of the updated plugins and now works good.

Turns out that the font size settings in

C:\Users[user]\AppData\Roaming\Notepad++\stylers.xml

were not consistent, and apparently the grid lines were set to the largest font size, even though all the php font settings were for 8pt;.

By doing a global change of

fontSize=“10”

to

fontSize=“8”

the vertical indent guidelines are now properly aligned.

THANK YOU, that’s awesome!

Greg

Oh God, I feel so happy, and so embarassed. I did not read your entire answer before replying. The devilish “autocomplete” is now just ticked off, all right. No need to kill, just tick it off; shame on me, and many thanks on you. A probable serious engagement to Notepad++ is now on sight.
Thanks again,
Ed
P.S. Maybe of use to you: If you may sometimes feel in need of a Keep on Top utility, I use tiny Deskpins.exe to good measure.

It is a bug. It was just fixed and will be in the next release.

Paul, thanks for your feedback, much appreciated. I agree with you that the DSpellCheck plugin by Sergey Semushin is one of the most important plugins for many users. It doesn’t ship with the Notepad++ distribution atm because it causes the application to hang on newer versions of Windows. The plugin will be back as soon as that issue gets sorted out.

If your local computer is running Windows and the remote system is running Linux, you’ll probably want to change the way WinSCP handles plain text files. By default, WinSCP converts line endings between systems so on each machine the file is stored with the machine’s system default settings.
I suggest that in WinSCP, you go to Preferences/Transfer/Presets, double-click on “Text”, and change “Transfer Mode” from “Text” to “Binary”. This should do the trick as long as you don’t save with Windows line endings locally by accident.

Sure,

setlocal ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION
echo ┌╨╨╨╨╨╨╨╨╨╨╨╨╨╨╨╨╨╨╨╨╨╨╨╨╨╨╨╨╨╨╨╨╨╨╨╨╨╨╨╨╨╨╨╨╨┐>> SyncLog.log
echo │ SYNC STARTED: %DATE% at %TIME% │>> SyncLog.log
echo ├─────────────────────────────────────────────┘>> SyncLog.log
for /F “skip=5 tokens=" %%A in (SyncConfig.txt) do (
for /F "tokens=3 delims= ,=, " %%B in (‘echo %%A^| findstr /i /c:“Source Drive”’) do (set SourceDrive=%%B)
)
for /F "tokens=6-10 delims= " %%A in (‘dir !SourceDrive!^| findstr /i Volume^| findstr /v Serial’) do (
set SourceDriveName=%%A %%B %%C %%D %%E
echo │ The source drive is set to !SourceDrive! ^(!SourceDriveName!^)>> SyncLog.log
)
for /F "skip=9 tokens=” %%A in (SyncConfig.txt) do (
for /F %%B in (‘echo %%A^| findstr /i /v /c:“Not Included”’) do (
if NOT EXIST %%B:\ (
call :GetTime
echo │ !CurrentTime! %%B:\ does not exist and was not synced>> SyncLog.log
)
if EXIST %%B:\ (
set NetworkDrive=FALSE
for /F “skip=5 tokens=2 delims= " %%C in (‘net use^| findstr /v command’) do (if “%%B:”==”%%C" (set NetworkDrive=TRUE))
if !NetworkDrive!==TRUE (
call :GetTime
echo ├ !CurrentTime! %%B:\ is a network drive and was not synced>> SyncLog.log
)
if !NetworkDrive!==FALSE (
title SYNCING !SourceDrive! TO %%B:
robocopy /MIR !SourceDrive! %%B:
title SYNC IS COMPLETE
if %ERRORLEVEL% GEQ 8 (
call :GetTime
echo █►!CurrentTime! An error occured when robocopy attempted to sync from !SourceDrive! to %%B:>> SyncLog.log
)
if %ERRORLEVEL% LSS 8 (
for /F "tokens=6-10 delims= " %%C in (‘dir %%B:^| findstr /i Volume^| findstr /i /v Serial’) do (
call :GetTime
echo ├►!CurrentTime! %%B:\ ^(%%C %%D %%E %%F %%G^) was successfully synced with !SourceDrive! ^(!SourceDriveName!^)>> SyncLog.log
)
)
)
)
)
)
endlocal
echo ├─────────────────────────────────────────────┐>> SyncLog.log
echo │ SYNC ENDED: %DATE% at %TIME% │>> SyncLog.log
echo └╥╥╥╥╥╥╥╥╥╥╥╥╥╥╥╥╥╥╥╥╥╥╥╥╥╥╥╥╥╥╥╥╥╥╥╥╥╥╥╥╥╥╥╥╥┘>> SyncLog.log
goto :eof
:GetTime
set CurrentTime=%TIME%
goto :eof

I find that if I hide a few lines, then hide a few more lines right below the previously hidden, restoring them to visibility on restores the second group. The first group remains hidden, with no little triangles in the margin to restore them.

Hello, Ferenc Nagy,

Looking at your file, I noticed that the length of your <....> zones, included the brackets, are mostly 12 and sometimes 24, 36 or 48 characters long !

So, assuming that you simply use the Normal text language for your data files, I would do this way :

Open the Settings - Preferences… Tab Settings dialog

Select the normal language

UNCHECK the Use Default value option

Type 12 in the Tab size option

Leave the Replace by space option UNCHECKED

Close the Preferences dialog

Now, let’s suppose that you write the line, below ( it’s just an example, not related to yourexact file contents ! )

<PREDICATE ><OBJECT ><EVA_TITLE ><DEVICE ><COMPLEMENT >

and that you have to write, for each of these five columns, three letters, taken in the alphabetical list.

To correctly write these data, according to the previous header line :

Type the string abc and hit the TAB key, ONCE

Type the string def and hit the TAB key, ONCE

Type the string ghi and hit the TAB key TWICE

Type the string jkl and hit the TAB key, ONCE

Type the string mno and hit the TAB key, THREE times

To better visualize the TAB characters, use the View - Show Symbol - Show All Characters option !

IMPORTANT :

When ALL your datas will be typed, in your file, according to the above scheme, use the Edit - Blank Operations - TAB to Space option to replace all the TAB characters by the suitable number of SPACE characters ( Thanks to Loreia2 ! )

Et voilà ! From now on, your datas should be aligned, on column 1 , 13, 25, 37, … ( 12*n + 1 )

Best Regards,

guy038

Hello, Eirik,

If I suppose that :

Any subset of three digits, except for the first one, of the numbers, in your dataset, can be preceded or NOT, by a comma,

The space delimiter can be present or NOT, before the word patients, which can either be written in a singular mode,

an other SEARCH regex expression could be : +\d+(,?\d{3})+ *patients?, with a space BEFORE the first + sign of that regex.

With that regex, it would match all these following items :

abc 1234 patients xyz abc 1,234 patients xyz abc patients xyz abc 12345 patients xyz abc 12,345 patients xyz abc patients xyz abc 123456 patients xyz abc 123,456 patients xyz abc patients xyz abc 1234567 patients xyz abc 1,234567 patients xyz abc 1234,567 patient xyz abc 1,234,567 patients xyz abc patients xyz abc 12345678 patients xyz abc 12,345678 patients xyz abc 12345,678 patients xyz abc 12,345,678 patients xyz abc patients xyz abc 123456789 patients xyz abc 123,456789 patient xyz abc 123456,789 patient xyz abc 123,456,789 patients xyz abc patients xyz abc 1234567890 patients xyz abc 1,234567890 patients xyz abc 1,234,567890 patient xyz abc 1,234567,890 patients xyz abc 1,234,567,890patient xyz abc 1234,567890 patients xyz abc 1234,567,890 patients xyz abc 1234567,890 patients xyz

But, it would ignore all natural numbers, under 1000 and some odd syntaxes as 1,2,3 or ,1a,23, like below :

abc 0 patient xyz abc 0, patient xyz abc 1 patient xyz abc 1, patient xyz abc 12 patients xyz abc 12, patients xyz abc 123 patients xyz abc 999 patients xyz abc 123, patients xyz abc ,123 patients xyz abc 1,2,3 patients xyz abc 12,34 patients xyz abc 12,3,4 patients xyz abc 123,4 patients xyz abc , patients xyz abc ,,,,,, patients xyz abc ,,4,,4,, patients xyz abc patients xyz abc ,1234 patients xyz abc ,1,234 patients xyz abc 123a456b789 patients xyz

Best Regards,

guy038